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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Depends on the calculator. Floating point imprecision is well documented.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
You’re an inspiration. I’m going to open an accounting firm and refuse to use calculators.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
When I was a GS15, my box 1 on my W2 was nearly $240k. It’s still not $500k, but it’s not as low as you’re claiming. Yes, the GS table maxes out at ~150k, but they are also allowed to do locality (in DC that was ~34k), and some agencies are
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
I am not involved with phage research. However, antibiotics do not work on viruses. I believe you mean bacterial infections, which seem to either evolve protections against antibiotics or protections against bacteriophages, but not both.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
It probably also means that the AI can write better advertisements than what currently exists.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Unless you’re running the models yourself with your own queries, you’ll just end up consuming model output that has been prompted to inject advertisements.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Large language models aren’t magic, they are tools. Most tools are potentially harmful in the hands of a novice and potentially powerful in the hands of an expert.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Seemingly unpopular opinion: large language models are just a new higher level of abstraction we can use to describe what we want the computer to do. Can I claim this guy is a fraud for using python instead of typing opcodes into a hex edit
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Stability.ai has been cloud training, but open source releasing their diffusion based models for image generation. Somebody built that model into an iOS app that runs (slowly) on your local device. I agree most AI companies don’t benefit, t
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
It was an actual one. text-davinci-003, default parameters, I typed the prompt and the things in front of human, and then AI:
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
I think the question is going to come down to how quickly these models can be trained and run on consumer devices instead of data centers run by megacorps. Obligatory (intentionally ridiculous) GPT3 session below: You are an Ai assistant, p
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
Since iOS15, you have been able to invite Android and PC users to FaceTime calls.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
I wonder if the founding fathers had an opinion on temporary safety vs liberty. Shame there’s not a quote about that.
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by lolsowrong 4y ago
https://github.com/pricing#i-work-on-open-source-projects-ca...
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by lolsowrong 10y ago
radare2: The ed of reverse engineering.